A daemon mode oddity?

[Carter Bullard]

Hey Peter,
   So with the -d we do a chdir to /, like most daemons do,
so that you don't get problems with umounting filesystems
with argus running.

   Now we do that of course before we open anything, so
this is doing what its designed to do, but probably not
what we want it to do?

   Opinions?

Carter

Carter Bullard
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-argus at lists.andrew.cmu.edu
> [mailto:owner-argus at lists.andrew.cmu.edu]On Behalf Of Peter Van Epp
> Sent: Monday, February 05, 2001 4:33 PM
> To: argus
> Subject: A daemon mode oddity?
> 
> 
> 	I started argus_bpf (2.0.0Y) in daemon mode (as opposed 
> to with a &)
> but with no config file and it seems to have defaulted oddly 
> (but perhaps
> as designed):
> 
> 	pwd is /data:
> 
> test4# argus_bpf -dJRw argus.log
> argus_bpf[7381]: started
> 
> test4# ls -l
> total 7426
> -rw-r--r--  1 vanepp  wheel      628 Feb  1 08:22 .cshrc
> -rw-------  1 vanepp  wheel      348 Feb  2 13:48 .history
> -rw-r--r--  1 vanepp  wheel      299 Feb  1 08:22 .login
> -rw-r--r--  1 vanepp  wheel      160 Feb  1 08:22 .login_conf
> -rw-------  1 vanepp  wheel      371 Feb  1 08:22 .mail_aliases
> -rw-r--r--  1 vanepp  wheel      331 Feb  1 08:22 .mailrc
> -rw-r--r--  1 vanepp  wheel      722 Feb  1 08:22 .profile
> -rw-------  1 vanepp  wheel      276 Feb  1 08:22 .rhosts
> -rw-r--r--  1 vanepp  wheel      852 Feb  1 08:22 .shrc
> -rw-r--r--  1 root    wheel  6187884 Feb  2 11:21 argus.log.2
> -rw-r--r--  1 root    wheel    62892 Feb  1 21:49 argus.log.core.1
> -rw-------  1 root    wheel  1314816 Feb  1 21:49 argus_bpf.core.1
> -rw-r--r--  1 root    wheel     2324 Feb  2 11:19 ps.console.hang
> 
> 	But no argus.log output file from the -w above. A find 
> indicates that
> it is writing in to /argus.log (because there is no config 
> file perhaps?) 
> rather than the expected (at least by me :-) ./ which in this 
> case would be
> /data. Because / isn't all that large that is potentially a 
> problem. Is this
> what is supposed to be happening?
> 
> Peter Van Epp / Operations and Technical Support 
> Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C. Canada
> 
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